Sosoliso Airlines is saying that many of the victims of the DC9 crash in Port Harcourt are not being paid because JAT, the owners of the aircraft are refuse to pay their share of the monies:
Sosoliso had in paid advertorials published at the weekend stated that: "Much as there is no material compensation to make up for even a single soul, the management of Sosoliso Airlines began to pay compensation to families of the victims the same month the incident occurred; while awaiting the processing of the insurance papers, we offered each family one million naira for burial expenses. A good number of families have since been paid fully."
"The full payment was in spite of the refusal of our former technical partner, JAT airline of Yugoslavia, which owned the aircraft that crashed, to honour its insurance obligations to us and the passengers. The ill-fated airliner was the only plane in our fleet of five which was not owned by us.
"It must be stated categorically that NICON Insurance which provided the local component of the insurance cover, has since met its obligation. The problem we have is with JAT, and the failure to live up to its responsibility is now the subject of litigation in London.
I belief that Virgin Nigeria and ACN also lease aircrafts from JAL and have pilots from them. Does this mean that passengers flying in these aircrafts must also fear that their families will not be properly compensated if they have crash?